A CASE IN NULLITY

by Evelyn Berckman ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 5, 1968

Evelyn Berckman writes highly attractive femalodramas with luxury touches, here contributed by the amenities of the London publishing scene. Auriol, by no means recovered from the loss of Giles whom she had planned to marry and who has died, now agrees to become the wife of casually met Ivor Hales, a wealthy, sybaritic, somewhat supercilious type. Her fate accomplished, Auriol finds that Ivor proves to be as ""passive as a sultana"" in the bed which he insists on sharing With her and where his inadequacy becomes, inferentially, her guilt. He also proceeds to further discommode her in vaguely nasty Ways, and when she decides to divorce him, she finds that only the humiliating plea of nullity (impotence) is available. At the dose, her own self-exposure at the hands of her good friend, the racy, raucous Maggie, provides a reverse which surprises even where it Won't altogether persuade the reader or exonerate Ivor. But you'll certainly read it.

Pub Date: April 5, 1968

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1968

Categories: FICTION